A gun was recovered when Bland was taken into custody, but Gregory refused to say if it was the one used in the Jordan shooting.

Jordan, the father of a 4-year-old boy and 7-month-old daughter, was shot in the head and chest at about 3:15 a.m. while at a friend's Wegman Parkway apartment.

He was pronounced dead at the Jersey City Medical Center about 30 minutes later.

Bland was charged with murder, possession of a firearm with a permit to carry and possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose. He was to appear at Central Judicial Processing this morning in Jersey City.

Authorities say that two armed men came into the apartment and shot Jordan with a semiautomatic handgun. Gregory would not say if authorities believe Bland was the shooter. Authorities are still looking for the second man involved in the murder.

At 11:30 p.m. later that day, Jordan's friend, Ezekiel Sims, 31, of Stevens Avenue, was shot once in the head execution style in a stairwell at the Marion Gardens housing complex where Jordan lived.